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[โ€“] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Owning giant pickup trucks and SUVs. I'm not that secretive about it, though. I assume everyone driving them is an insecure, overgrown child who wants a big vroom vroom.

[โ€“] a1studmuffin@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

If I know anyone who drives one, I always refer to it jokingly as their 'emotional support vehicle".

[โ€“] lath@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I'm not sure about everyone else, but in my case you assume correctly. The only reason I'd want a monster truck is to act like an overgrown child who wants to show off his big vroom vroom. Also, with a mandatory funny honk.

[โ€“] Zeon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I don't like them but they're at least practical.

[โ€“] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Wow beat me to it.

[โ€“] Bell@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'll go a step further and assume they are...speaking loudly while carrying a small stick.

[โ€“] Jarix@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Interesting. I judge people who body shame people because of what they drive.

[โ€“] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

What they drive, what they own, and what their gender is.*

It's always "man have small peepee, man bald, man fat, man have smaller than average features, man short," with all replies being "haha so original and funny." But god forbid someone said anything like that about a woman, at that moment everyone remembers body shaming exists and piles on and says things like "don't objectify women." Why the double standard? Do men not deserve the right to be comfortable with their bodies as well? Don't objectify me either.

[โ€“] MonkeMischief 1 points 1 month ago

I would even be okay with them enjoying it as a "big vroom vroom" if they did it have to be so consistently mean and angry about it!